Features and Stories
Ten years ago, a misogynist incel declared聽鈥渨ar on women鈥 before embarking on a deadly rampage in the beachside community of Isla Vista, California. On the evening of May 23, 2014, Elliot Rodger stabbed his two housemates and their friend to death before traveling to his ultimate target: a UC Santa Barbara sorority house. In his manifesto, he wrote that these women 鈥渞epresent everything I hate in the female gender.鈥
Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caught our attention through May 17.
We tracked 1,430 hate and extremist groups in 2023. Hate has no place in our country.